Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citadel itself, the grim grey fortress where Roosevelt and Churchill lived and worked on the Plains of Abraham 300 ft. above the broad St. Lawrence River, went China's earnest Foreign Affairs Minister T. V. Soong-a hint that real action might be on its way in the Far East...
...Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "We shall return to the Dark Ages. . . . The blackout will clog our transport and put fresh brakes on industrial production. ... In 1941 industrial accidents among men rose by 42% over 1938; among women by 192%. . . .In 1940 many citizens accepted the blackout as a grim necessity. . . . 1940 is as remote as 1840 for everybody -except the Government departments which imposed the blackout and on this matter have suffered a mental blackout ever since...
...Tally. In both Berlin and Moscow grim men tallied up the blood-&-iron cost of the first month and a half of the great summer battle, begun by intuitive Hitler on July 5. Germany's losses, Moscow said, totalled 1,000,000 dead and wounded men, 4,600 planes, 7,200 tanks, 5,000 guns, 24,200 trucks. The Red losses, Berlin announced, were 1,250,000 men, 12,500 tanks, 500 guns. Even salted down, these sets of figures indicated that the battle dwarfed Sicily in blood and import...
...village lovelies prancing mightily as they sang in a throaty, minor key. Suleiman, despite his 18 wives, his 14 children and the fact that doctors give him only two more years because of fatty degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred and pocked by huge, overhanging boulders and ledges. In the morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power...
...eleventh child, Dr. Newman found that its grandmother had already been tugging at the child for five hours with her bare hands, had broken the umbilical cord and, gory to the elbows, was digging for the placenta when he arrived. Dr. Newman gave the mother sulfanilamide, offered a grim prognosis and went home. A week later the patient walked into his office, boomed: "Doctor, please give me some medicine to keep me from breeding so fast...